About this event
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Through interactive activity, discussion, and lecture, workshop facilitators will provide participants with a primer on disability and ableism through the lens of intersectionality. Participants will leave this workshop with a more nuanced understanding of ableism and linguistic ableism, as well as an introduction to disability justice and its tenets. Facilitators will offer a brave space for participants to discuss disability-related microaggressions, offering facilitator reflections on their own experiences either experiencing or perpetuating ableism. This program will cover special topics related to disability justice (e.g. the intersection of racial justice and disability justice, the experiences of womxn with disabilities). Facilitators will also provide participants with a program website, which will include educational resources surrounding disability and ableism and a list of local Portland-metro resources for people with disabilities and human service providers working with people with disabilities (e.g.
counseling/psychotherapy and advocacy services).
Register at https://www.ywcapdx.org/disability-ableism/